No problem, I’m happy to educate. Mathews v. Eldridge stands for the general proposition that one must have a hearing before a government benefit is cut-off, and attending a public college would qualify under that rubric. My aside about contracts was merely to say that the colleges are bound by contract to hold a…

Procedural due process protections are not limited to criminal proceedings, they apply to all legal rights. First, for both private and public schools, the student-school relationship is fundamentally contractual, and those contracts provide for a hearing process before any expulsion. Secondly, for public schools the…

It’s not awful, it’s a legal defense.

The bigger principle at stake is due process. Colleges have demonstrated that they are completely incapable of dealing with accusations of sexual assault and rape. They either ignore the accusation and drag their feet in investigating, or they conduct ‘hearings’ where the result is predetermined (can’t review the…

I think you’re interpreting the phrase ‘fixed income’ too literally. It’s referring to living off a finite amount of savings with no new income and much less ability to weather inflation.

That argument doesn’t make much sense. Before the ACA, the health care system still was controlled by the insurance industry, not doctors. And the ACA imposed nationwide minimum coverage standards so coverage doesn’t vary. Though lower income people in the South may be able to contribute less to their coverage, the…

Although it’s a small sample size, there have always been some survivors of controlled water landings (not always 100%, but some).

A surprising decent number: Captain Sully in the Hudson, ALM Flight 980, Ethiopian 961, Japan Air Lines Flight 2, and more than have run off the ends of runways.

I think the more bizarre thing is that they’ve programed a piece of software to simulate being insulted.

If you get hit from behind, you get thrown back in your seat (physics, kids), so the airbag wouldn't have to go off. I'm also pretty sure that the seat just broke.

The premise of this story is incorrect. Several planes carry oxygen tanks to supply passenger masks; it's a customer option. Example: Qantas flight 30, a 747, had one of its oxygen tanks explode and punch a rather large hole in the side of the plane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Fl…

True, but this was in 2002.

The problem for these parents is also that by acknowledging that autism is genetic and not caused by vaccines, you as a parent have to accept that you gave your children that condition.

I once had a Hyundai salesman try to explain the lack of ABS as being a safety feature.

I’m assuming it’s so they can advertise the product at a lower price

I would state categorically that one cannot ‘bully’ a business. It is a legal fiction, it has no feelings or emotions.

Advocating violence which is not imminent is protected by the First Amendment, as is organizing a boycott.

If any of her bank accounts, credit cards, or property is jointly held, she’s stuck with them. If she files taxes seperatly, she’d still be paying more than if she were single (the rates for married filing seperatly are higher than the single rates). If there are children of the marriage she probably couldn’t move…

If bigotry is refusing the accept as valid certain viewpoints, then all bigotry must not be bad. Write me up as bigoted toward those who denigrate and discriminate against those others because of some innate trait.

What, in your mind, is the difference between boycotting and ‘bullying’? How does one ‘bully’ a business organization?